Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

It's amazing how strict Facebook is about content. This is something that I wouldn't dare post there because I could get banned for 30 days. 

But, I have to say that I think that what is going on right now over Afghanistan is outrageous and surreal.  We talk like we want to evacuate the whole country, and mostly just to make the Taliban look bad. It's the way that we ignore reality that irks me the most. Because: the fact is that what happened is that the Afghan Military collapsed. The Taliban didn't win; the other side gave up. They handed the country over to them. So, if we're going to blame anyone, we should blame the the surrendering Afghan Army and the Afghan President who fled the country. 

The Taliban website is down again, and I'm sure it's because it was hacked. But, I'm sure if I could get to it, it would show them denying the reports of atrocities by them, one which was that they skinned someone and hung him from a pole. A former Congressman said that, but I don't believe it. 

The Taliban has said repeatedly that there is amnesty for everyone, that no Afghan has to leave the country. It's one thing for us to get Americans out, but also to evacuate Afghans by the thousands? It's  just a PR campaign. Think about it: we're supposed to be trying to restrain the influx of Latin Americans on our Southern border, right? But, at the same time, we're going to open up the country to thousands of Afghans just to make the Taliban look bad?  And if we keep it up, the Taliban may tire of it and decide to take that airport, and by force, if necessary.  Then what are we going to do? Start bombing again? 

Well, speaking of bombing, it wasn't that long ago that our bombs killed Afghan civilians, including women and children. Just 2 weeks ago, U.S. airstrikes killed at least 20 civilians in Helmand province.

https://tolonews.com/afghanistan-174088

We do all this talk about women's right, but the most fundamental right is the right to life, and we don't grant that to women or men. Throughout the Afghanistan War, we have been more than willing to kill innocent civilians, if it was needed to accomplish a military objective.  Our whole war effort in Afghanistan has been so dastardly, so criminal, and so totally in violation of the Geneva Conventions, to which we are a signatory. And we call the Taliban terrorists. Never has there been a worse case of the pot calling the kettle black.